The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c14.s3.20

v2.c14.s3.20

Nāmadeva and Janābāi were junior contemporaries of Jñāneśvara, and their devotional Marathi songs are matchless in their beauty and incomparable in their religious fervour. Nāmadeva travelled on foot all over India and founded his *mathas* even in some places in the North. He also spent some years in the Punjab, where he established a *matha* at Ghoman in the Gurdaspur District, which is still in existence. We can thus understand how it comes to be that some of his songs are included even in the *Granthasaheb* of Nānaka.